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Re: Good page titles - friendly SEO

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Oct 13, 2009 9:30AM

Users (I presume you are referring to site visitors) have nothing to search
rankings, at least not according to spokespeople from within Google et al.
It never could be a factor as it would be all too easily abused.

Black-hat and spammy techniques can work short-term but the leading search
engines keep watch on the latest practices and soon crack down on them.
I've witnessed sites being removed from Google's index entirely because of
this...it does happen!

A lot of it depends on what you are looking for and what terms you use to
carry out your search. Can't say I've ever suffered seeing spammy search
results unless I was searching for something like song lyrics - there the
MP3 download/ring-tone crowd clog up the results badly.